Opinion

What are the chances of a desi president in the White House?

They are no longer content with their stereotyped professional roles — be it as software engineers, entrepreneurs, doctors, professors, scientists and what have you. Indian-origin Americans are now on the quest for the holy grail: they want one of their own kind to occupy the White House.&ldqu...

Opinion

How India’s “Dost Diplomacy” won plaudits

Did you know the meaning of the Turkish axiom “Dost kara gunde belli olur”? I must confess I did not either until I read the English version tweeted by Firat Sunel, the Turkish ambassador in Delhi, who explained that it was the Turkish equivalent of the adage “A friend in need is a...

Opinion

G20 needs to achieve consensus

You might be forgiven if you wondered what the two-day G20 summit held on October 30 and 31 in Rome has in common with the Biblical “Babel of tongues”.The Biblical term (Genesis 11:1—9) applied to a city (now thought to be Babylon) in Shinar where God supposedly confounded a presum...